Principal Modernization Architect

About Liatrio

Liatrio is a boutique consulting firm that helps enterprises deliver software faster, safer and more efficiently. Our work is dual mode: engineering delivery and people enablement. We lead Application Modernization and Dev Ops transformations in many different industries, anywhere from financial institutions to healthcare providers to the department of defense.

This role is onsite in Denver for one of our largest enterprise customers.

We’re looking for someone with extensive experience as a Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Field CTO, Head of Development, Head of Engineering, or Head of Application Modernization, who is passionate about both best practices in modern enterprise architecture and enabling clients through transferring knowledge, coaching, training, and upskilling.

The Principal Application Modernization Architect is a stakeholder and decision maker Liatrio's direction, and accountable for strategic technical direction of a major engagement or several smaller engagements, building and maintaining client relationships as a trusted technical advisor, and overall technical engagement success. Internally, this role will work with Executive and Senior leaders as Liatrio scales. This role is is responsible for the code quality architecture, and technical direction of multiple work streams.

Titles that can correspond to our work:
Senior Technical Director, Senior Technical Principal, Principal Architect, Managing Director, Enterprise Architect, Strategic Architect, Senior Director of Technical Professional Services, Senior Director of Application Development, Director of Developer Experience, or Vice President of Engineering.

Liatrio lives and breathes the following traits; people on our team tend to have a combination of the following qualities:

- Willingness and hunger to learn

- Devotion to open communication and transparency

- Value collaboration and willingness to share responsibilities across internal and client work

- Effectively communicate in difficult conversations

- Desire to solve complex problems - interpersonal, technical, and business

- Ability to acknowledge shortcomings and provide solutions

- Empathy towards others

- Appreciate mentoring and helping others grow

- Navigate ambiguity and frequent change

This is a Senior Director - level role. You thrive building relationships as a trusted technology advisor with clients, guiding and influencing the long-term technical direction of their modernization transformation, and guiding teams through this work.

We each bring varying degrees of knowledge to the table. You will have extensive experience in most of the below areas but not necessarily all of them. This is not a comprehensive list; there may be other equally valuable skills and experience you bring that are not listed here.

• Lead architectural design and drive technology strategy - Partner with Strategic Principal to create SOWs, working closely with the C-suite, Liatrio delivery leadership, and client stakeholders to advise, drive, and evolve the enterprise architecture and POVs in Full Stack Application Development & Modernization, and potentially other technical domains
• Delivery strategy - Working closely with leadership, Liatrio team members and the client, contribute to and evolve the overall strategy for the technical engagement
• Trusted advisor - Guide clients on technical and engineering methodological best practices, provide broad technical influence, share industry insight, anticipate industry changes, advocate for cloud-native and Dev Ops cultural and be a transformational consultant (remove political, financial, mental, social impediments)
• Client relationship - Accountable for an account to build, grow, and maintain Liatrio relationships with the CTO/CIO/Chief Architect, executive, and key customer stakeholders
• Set and drive technical roadmaps - Architect enterprise solutions, reduce technical debt, balancing constraints to achieve strategic goals, provide oversight for work streams solving complex engineering challenges, and guide and collaborate with with both Liatrio…